We no speak americano

Last week, I had some friends over for an American movie night. We didn’t end up watching any films and the person I devised the themed menu for couldn’t actually make it, so on many levels it was a non-starter. What we did instead was get astoundingly drunk and play strip Bolivian snap. The menu was as follows, but these don’t really require recipes:

Southern chicken (chicken, flour, paprika, bake in oven)
Coleslaw (veg, mayo)
Barbecue beans (baked beans, butter beans, barbecue sauce)
Sweetcorn fritters (batter, sweetcorn, fry)
Salad (lettuce)
Salsa (tomatoes, red onions, chilli, coriander)
Blue cheese dip (blue cheese, sour cream)

And that was it. I followed these with some easy – peasy 20 minute blueberry muffins, courtesy of my new burning obsession love, Paul Hollywood from the Great British Bake Off. The only bit of these that is remotely tricky is that you have to let the batter (or is it dough) rest, ideally overnight.

Blueberry muffins
Makes about 12.

110g plain flour
110g butter
65g sugar
2 eggs
1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
125g blueberries
Pinch of nutmeg

-cream the butter and the sugar together.
-add the eggs slowly
-add the flour, baking powder and nutmeg, combine
-chill overnight.
-the next day, spoon the mix (which will be very stiff) into 12 muffin cases, filling to just about half way.
-stud the tops with blueberries (See picture below. Paul says 8, but as you will see I went conservative)
-Bake for 20 minutes at 200 degrees.

One of my friends ate 4 and said they were disgusting. I'm assuming this was an hilarious joke. Which would be a first from him.

i'm not bluffin with my muffin